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Cosy Up with our Halloween Movie Picks!
by Arthur Mulder, Francisca Figueiras Meinedo, Halloween, Lhya Munive, Raquel Rodríguez Mulero, Robin van Minnen, Suzanne KoolmeijerRead more: Cosy Up with our Halloween Movie Picks!In October, there is nothing better than curling up on the couch under a velvety, rusty-orange blanket with a cup of Autumn Storm tea—except, perhaps, doing it while watching your favourite Halloween movie. Here at Writer’s Block, we have been looking forward to this time of year since the start of the academic calendar. Our…
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Eulogy for the Humanities
Read more: Eulogy for the HumanitiesAmong many students, it is a deeply held belief that scientists are somehow superior. We envy the engineering boy, who just graduated and will earn the highest salary in the country; and the gifted medicine girl, straight A’s, will try and discover a cure for cancer. They are not just better, they are smarter. After…
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To Strive, To Seek, To Find, and Not to Yield
Read more: To Strive, To Seek, To Find, and Not to YieldAt 28, I’m just a year away from completing my bachelor’s degree, something that, not too long ago, felt distant and out of reach. My path here wasn’t straightforward, and at times, I’ve wondered if I was even on the right track. But as I look back, I realize this journey has shaped me, helping…
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Police Media in Limbo: The Faith and Future of a Sinful Genre
Read more: Police Media in Limbo: The Faith and Future of a Sinful GenreSynoptic Table of Physiognomic Traits: Eyes, Alphonse Bertillon The current distrust of police is the culmination of a long history rather than a new development. Black Lives Matter has its roots in American civil rights and the abolition movement before it. The 1992 LA riots were a response to boundless oppression and generational trauma as…
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The Paradox of Boredom: From Despair to Inspiration
Read more: The Paradox of Boredom: From Despair to Inspiration(Photo of the painting Indian Summer by Józef Chełmoński) “Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?” asks the famous philosopher Nietzsche. This rhetorical question underlines the most prevalent assumption in society towards boredom as a detrimental state of being. However, there is a substantial difference between boredom that is…
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